Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onion grower. When that market slumped, Gehring bought 350 brush-covered acres at $60 an acre (now worth upwards of $375), turned the fields to potatoes, and gradually added to his holdings. "Potatoes," explains Gehring, "meant rotation. To get steady potato crops, I reached for more land. For a good rotation crop, I chose mint. Mint and potatoes meant irrigation and controlling more land to protect our water rights. So this thing just grew and grew...
...formula used in Everything is one way of doubling and tripling the number and variety of songs and dances in a movie without having to worry about whether they fit into the plot. With good enough air-cooling in neighborhood thea ters, it could also triple the summer till...
Here are 28 stories which Miss Martha Foley, an old hand at editing this sort of anthology, says are the best of the past year. Perhaps they are the best; they are still not very good. Yet it is probable that if another editor had chosen them they would be neither much better nor greatly different. For these stories accurately reflect the work of the younger and more "serious" postwar writers...
...Faolain's picture of modern Ireland, which he thinks is a good place to live, is far from the notions of the ould sod and the emerald isle which many Americans cherish. He sees a nation of peasants-become-freeholders, a nation slowly learning how to make the best of its position "at the end of the queue" of Europe. For the present, however, he strikes a balance: " [We] have no nightingales, but also have no serpents; no moles, also no ballet; no Communist intelligentsia, but also no Catholic intelligentsia...
...Those up-country sheriffs are no good," Charley Bolton would say. "Too bad they couldn't send a few of you up into the hills to get hold of that Black Bart...